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COLUMBIA COLLEGE, 



TO WHICH IS APPENDED 



A LIST OF MEMBERS. 



OCTOBER, 1875. 



C. A. KITTLE, STATIONER AND FRUITER, No. 7G5 SIXTH AVENUE. 
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THE CHARTER 



CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS 



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COLUMBIA COLLEGE, 



TO WHICH IS APPENDED 



A LIST OF MEMBERS 



OCTOBER, 1875. 



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C. A. KITTLE, STATIONER AND PRINTER, No. 765 SIXTH AVENUE. 
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THE CHARTER 



CHAPTER 520. 



An Act to incorporate " The Association of the Alumni op Columbia 
College." 

Passed May 21st, 1874. 

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- 
bly, do enact as follows : 

Sec. 1. — Henry Drisler, Frederic De Peyster, J. Howard Van Amringe, 
Charles R. Swords, Henry James Anderson, William Mitchell, George P. 
Quackenbos, Charles A. Silliman, William H. Butterworth, Joseph B. Law- 
rence, Henry R. Beekman, William Bayard Cutting, James McNamee, James 
M. Brady, Seth Low, and Stuyvesant Fish, at present forming the officers and 
standing committee of " The Association of the Alumni of Columbia Col- 
lege," together with such other persons as appear to be members of that asso- 
ciation on the books of the Treasurer of the same, and not to be in arrear 
more than two years for dues, and also with such other persons as shall here- 
after become members of the corporation hereby created in such manner and 
upon such terms as shall be prescribed in the constitution or by-laws of such 
corporation, are hereby constituted and created a body corporate and politic 
in iact and in name by the name of " The Association of the Alumni of Co- 
lumbia College 1 , " for the purposes mentioned in this act ; and by that name 
they, and their successors and associates, shall have perpetual succession, and 
shall be capable inlaw of suing and being sued, and of receiving, purchasing, 
holding, conveying, leasing, mortgaging, or otherwise disposing of any real and 
personal estate for the use and benefit of said corporation, which estate shall 
not exceed the net annual income of twenty thousand dollars. 

Sec.2. — The object of this corporation shall be to perpetuate the friend- 
ships and relations arising during the course of* study in Columbia College, to 
promote the true interests, influence and efficiency of Columbia College as an 
institution of sound learning and practical education, and with these objects 
to establish lectureships, to have meetings of the members of said corporation 
for social and literary purposes and for the management of its business, to 
appoint from time to time (if the trustees of Columbia College shall consent 
thereto, and with such restrictions, if any, as said trustees shall prescribe) 
such number of trustees of said college as said college may, by general rules, 
or from time to time, authorize said corporation hereby constituted to appoint. 

Sec. 3.— The said corporation, at one or more specinl meetings to be called 
by its standing committee for that purpose, shall have power to frame its con- 
stitution and by-laios, with provisions therein for subsequent amendments of 
the same, provided the said constitution, by-laws and amendments be not in- 
consistent with the laws or constitution of the United States or of this State, 
and that there be present at such special meeting at least thirty members. 



Sec. 4. —The officers of said corporation shall be, until otherwise pre- 
scribed by their constitution, a President, Vice-President, Secretary, and 
Treasurer, who, with twelve other members to be elected at a general or spe- 
cial meeting shall be the standing committee of said corporation. 

Sec. 5. — Such standing committee shall have such powers as shall be 
lawfully conferred on them by the constitution and by-laws of the corporation, 
and they aud the said officers shall hold their offices for such time and in such 
manner as such constitution and by-laws shall prescribe. 

Sec. 6. — Such constitution and by-laws may declare what number of 
members shall constitute a quorum at meetings of the standing committee, and 
provide for the manner of admitting and suspending and removing members 
and officers of the corporation. 

Sec. 7. — The said corporation shall be subject to and have the rights con- 
ferred by the general provisions contained in the third title of the eighteenth 
chapter of the first part of the Revised Statutes, except that no member of 
said corporation shall be liable for any debts or liabilities of the same unless 
on an agreement in writing to be subscribed by such member and expressly 
binding him. 

Sec 8. — The said corporation, hereby constituted, may take real and per- 
sonal estate by will, but subject to the general provisions of the act relating to 
wills, passed April thirteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty, chapter three hun- 
dred and sixty. 

Sec. 9. — The several officers of said association existing at the time of the 
passage of this act, shall hold their respective offices as officers of this corpo- 
ration with the powers and duties prescribed by the constitution and by-laws 
of said association until their successors shall be elected or appointed. Fur- 
ther, all property, rights aud interests of said association shall by virtue of this 
act vest iu and become the property of this corporation. 

Sec. 10 — All interest of any member of said corporation in its property 
shall terminate and vest in the corporation upon his ceasing to be a member 
thereof by death, resignation, expulsion or otherwise. 

Sec 11. — The Legislature may at any time alter, amend, or repeal this act. 

Sec 12. — This act shall take effect immediately. 

State op New York ) 

Office ok the Secretary of State ) 8S ' 

I have compared the preceding with the original law on file in this office, 
and do hereby certify that the same is a correct transcript therefrom, and of 
the whole of said original law ; 

Given under my hand and seal of office, of the Secretary of State, at the 
city of Albany, this 10th day of June, in the year one thousand eight hundred 
and seventy four. 

Diedrich Willers, Jr., Secretary of State. 



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CONSTITUTION. 



Ylfe S^odiktion of the Sltm\r|i of doltunbik College, 

Entertaining a grateful sense of obligation to their Alma Mater for the intel- 
lectual and moral training received within her walls, and desirous of 
perpetuating the friendships established during their course in college, and 
of promoting the true interests, influence and efficiency of Columbia College 
as an institution of sound learning and practical education, the better to 
secure these ends do hereby accept the act of incorporation granted to them 
by an act of tne Legislature of the State of New York, passed May 21st, 
1874, entitled "an act to incorporate the Association of the Alumni of 
Columbia College." 

The Association thus incorporated adopts the following as the Constitu- 
tion of said corporation. 

Article I. 

Sec. 1. — The present members of this corporation, are, Henry Drisler, 
Frederic De Peyster, J. Howard Van Amringe, Seth Low, Henry James An- 
derson, William Mitchell, Charles R- Swords, George P. Quackenbos, 
Charles A. Silliman, Edward Mitchell, William H. Butterworth, Joseph Bayley 
Lawrence, Henry R Beekman, William Bayard Cutting, James McNamee 
and John M. Nash, forming the present Officers and Standing Committee of 
the Association, together with such other persons as appear to be members 
of the late Association on the books of the Treasurer of the same, and not to 
be in arrear more than two years for dues. A list of such members is hereto 
annexed, and is hereby adopted and accepted as correct. 

Sec. 2. — This corporation will hereafter consist of the same persons, to- 
gether with such other persons as shall hereafter become members of the same, 
in such manner and upon such terms as shall from time to time be prescribed 
in the constitution or by-laws of this corporation. 

Article II. 

Sec. 1.— The members of this corporation shall be classed as regular, asso- 
ciate, and honorary members, respectively. 

Sec. 2. — Any graduate from the Academic Department of Columbia Col- 
lege may become a regular member of this corporation by signing the roll of 
the members to be kept by the Treasurer, and paying the dues for one year or 
for life. 

Sec 3.— Any person who shall not have graduated from the College, but 
who shall have been a member of a class in the Academic Department, which 
shall have graduated, and any graduate from the other Departments, may be 
elected, by the Standing Committee or this Association, an associate member, 
and become such member on signing such roll, and making such payment as 
mentioned in the preceding section. 



6 CONSTITUTION. 

Sec. 4. — The President of the College, or any Ex President, any member or 
cx-member of the Board of Trustees, or of the Faculty, or any one who shall 
have received an honorary degree from the College, may be elected, by the 
Standing Committee or this Association, an honorary member of this corpor- 
ation. 

Sec. 5. —Associate members and honorary members shall be entitled to all 
the privileges of regular members, except those of voting and holding office. 

Article III. 

Sec. 1, — Every regular and associate member shall hereafter pay to the 
Treasurer the sum of two dollars annually, or in lieu thereof, a life-member- 
ship fee of thirty dollars as a commutation for annual dues. All moneys paid 
as commutation fees, shall be funded under the direction of the Standing 
Committee and shall be deemed a permanent fund, and the interest only shall 
be appropriated to the current expenses of this Association. Those who have 
heretofore paid the life-membership fee, are not required to make future pay- 
ments, unless the constitution shall be amended in that respect. The amount, 
of the annual dues and of the commutation fees, shall be subject to future 
alterations. 

Sec 2 — Should any regular or associate member, other than a life member, 
neglect to pay the said annual dues, and allow the same to become more than 
one year in arrear, he shall have no vote upon any subject before this Associa- 
tion until he shall have paid the dues in arrear, and the Standing Committee 
or this Association shall have power to erase his name from the roll of mem- 
bers, and he shall thereupon cease to be a member of this Association until 
restored by a vote of the Standing Committee or of this Association. 

The books of the Treasurer shall be the regular evidence of the state of 
the account of any member on the question of his right to vote, but any error 
in the same may be subsequently corrected by the Standing Committee or this 
Association. 

Article IV. 

Sec 1.-— The officers of this corporation shall be a President, Vice-Presi- 
dent, Secretary, and Treasurer. They shall be elected from the regular 
members, and with twelve other regular members shall constitute the Standing 
Committee of this Association. 

Sec 2. —The President, Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer shall 
hold their offices respectively for one year from the first Monday in October, 
and until their successors shall be duly chosen. 

The twelve other regular members chosen at the annual election in Octo- 
ber, 1874, as members of the Standing Committer shall divide themselves by 
lot into three classes of equal numbers each. 

The first class shall hold office for three years ; the second class, two years ; 
and the third class, one year ; and thereafter each annual election shall be for 
four members of the Standing Committee to hold office three years, and for 
such additional number, if any, as may be necessary to fill vacancies, to hold 
office during the remainder of the terms of the members whose places they rill. 

None of the said twelve regular members shall be re-elected until at least 
one year after their term shall have expired, unless by a vote of two-thirds of 
those voting at the meeting for such election. 



CONSTITUTION. 7 

Article V. 

Sec. 1. — The President, or in his absence the Vice President, and in their 
absence a President pro tempore, to be appointed by the meeting, shall preside 
at the meetings of this Association. 

Sec. 2. — The President shall have power to call extra meetings of this 
Association at his discretion. It shall be his duty to call a meeting thereof, 
whenever five regular members shall request him in writing to do so. 

Sec. 3. — During the absence, illness, or other inability of the President 
to perform any of his duties, the Vice-President shall act as, and shall have all 
the powers of, the President. In case of the absence, iUness or other inability 
both of the President and Vice-President, the Standing Committee shall ap- 
point a regular member of the Association as temporary President, who shall 
act as, and have all the powers of, the President, except at meetings of the 
Association. 

Article VI. 

Sec 1.— The Secretary of this Association shall also be Secretary of the 
Standing Committee : He shall have the custody of the Act of Incorporation, 
and of the Constitution, By-Laws, and Records of the late Association, and of 
this Corporation, and of the Standing Committee ; he shall give due notice 
of all the meetings of this Association by public advertisement, and of such 
Committee, by writing ; he shall keep accurate minutes of their proceedings 
and shall notify officers and committees of their appointment, and of all reso- 
lutions or orders appertaining to their respective duties. He shall also have 
the custody and charge of the seal of the Corporation and affix it when re- 
quired by proper authority so to do. 

He shall also prepare a Necrology of the Association for each year, and 
present it to the Association at its annual meeting. Notice by the Secretary 
to the Chairman of any sub-committee shall be sufficient, and thereupon such 
Chairman shall notify the other members of his committee. 

Article VII. 

The Treasurer shall collect and take charge of the funds of the late Asso- 
ciation and of this Corporation, and shall make such investments and ordinary 
disbursements as the Standing Committee shall direct. He shall keep a written 
account of his receipts and payments, and at each annual meeting shall report 
the same in writing to this Association, when a committee of three regular 
members shall be appointed to audit his accounts ; which committee shall re- 
port to this Association or to the Standing Committee, within one year from 
the date of their appointment, or sooner if required ; he shall also report to 
the Standing Committee the condition of the Treasury whenever required by 
said Committee so to do. 

Article VIII. 

Sec 1. — The Standing Committee shall hold its first meeting within one 
month after the election of officers in each year, at such time and place as 
shall be designated by the Secretary of this Association or by such Committee, 
or in case no such designation shafl be made by the Committee or Secretary 
within three weeks, then by any three members of the Standing Committee. 



8 CONSTITUTION. 

Sec 2. — Until a different organization of the Standing Committee in each 
year, the Vice-President of this Association shall act as its chairman, and it 
shall be governed by the by-laws of the Standing Committee of the previous 
year until other by-laws shall be adopted. 

Sec. 3. — It shall be the duty of the Standing Committee to attend the ex- 
amination of the students of Columbia College, and to make all proper ar- 
rangements for the annual or more frequent meetings of this Association ; and 
for these, as well as for other purposes, they shall have power to appoint such 
sub-committees out of their own number, or from other regular or associate 
members of this Association, or from both, as they may deem expedient. 

Sec 4. — Sub committees shall be deemed to be continued until discharged 
by the Standing Committee or this Association, although the term of office of. 
the Standing Committee which appointed them may have expired, in which 
case they shall report to the successors in office of such Standing Committee 
or to this Association. 

Sec 5. — The Standing Committee shall have power to accept resignations 
of officers of this Association, and resignations of their own members, and 
also to remove from office any one of its members, other than the President, 
Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer, in the manner provided in the by- 
laws; and to fill the vacancies caused by such resignations and removals 
respectively — or which may exist from any other cause from time to time (the 
appointees in such cases to hold office until the next annual meeting of this 
Association, and until their successors shall have been duly chosen ) ; also to 
call meetings of this Association ; to disburse the funds of this Association 
to an amount not exceeding in any one year the interest on hand of the perma- 
nent fund and the net amount on hand of the annual dues of the members of this 
Association, after deducting therefrom such expenses of the Secretary and 
Treasurer as may have been sanctioned by the Standing Committee or the As- 
sociation ; and, in general, to do such things as may be expedient for the 
promotion of the objects of this Association, subject to such restrictions and 
limitations as are contained in the Act of Incorporation, or in the Constitution 
of this Association, or as shall be imposed by this Association ; and so that 
they shall not thereb}" - dispose of any money or property of this Association 
except as hereinbefore allowed. 

Sec 0. — The Standing Committee may elect its own chairman and vice- 
chairman, and shall every year through its chairman or vice-chairman present 
to the annual meeting of this Association a full report of all its proceedings, 
and also of such other matters, in the form of recommendations or otherwise, 
as the committee may deem proper. 

Article IX. 

An annual meeting of this Corporation shall be held on the first Monday 
of October in each year, for the purposes of business, and literary and social 
entertainment, under the directiou of the Standing Committee, or as soon 
thereafter as practicable, if the same be not then held. 

Article X. 

The presence of fifteen regular members shall be necessary to constitute a 
quorum of this Association to do business, except where in the Charter a larger" 
number is required; but a smaller number may adjourn from time to time. 



CONSTITUTION. 9 

Article XI. 

Amendments to this Constitution may be proposed at the annual meeting 
of this Association, or at a special meeting regularly called, and shall lie over 
for decision to the next annual or special meeting of this Association. 

The consent of two-thirds of the regular members present shall be neces- 
sary to their adoption. 

No proposed amendment shall be acted on by this Association, unless by 
unanimous consent, if more than two years shall have elapsed since the 
meeting at which such amendment was proposed. 

The term " this Association," as used in this constitution, is to be deemed 
equivalent to " this Corporation." 



BY-LAWS 

AND 

RULES OF ORDEK,. 



I. — On the appearance of a quorum, the President, or, in his absence, the 
Vice-President, or, in their absence, a Chairman to be appointed pro tempore, 
shall call the Association to order. 

The presence of fifteen members shall be necessary to constitute a 
quorum. 

If a quorum shall not appear within thirty minutes after the appointed 
time of meeting, the members present shall adjourn ; causing a minute to be 
made of such adjournment and its cause. They may adjourn to a stated time, 
of which notice shall be given as of a stated meeting. 
II. — The order of business shall be as follows : 

1. — Reading of the minutes of the last meeting, and action thereupon. 
2. — Appointment of tellers to supervise the election of Officers and 

Standing Committee. 
3. — Report of the Standing Committee and action thereupon. 
4. — Report of the Treasurer. Appointment of a Committee of three 

to audit the same. 
5. — Report of the Auditing Committee on Treasurer's last Annual Report, 

and action thereupon. 
6. — Reports of Special Committees, and action thereupon. 
7. — Necrology of the year read by the Secretary. 
8. — Miscellaneous business. 
III. — The rules to be observed in the election of Officers and Standing 
Committee are as follows : 

. 1. — The Chairman of the meeting shall appoint two tellers, who shall pre- 
side over the polls, and, at the close" of the same, count and report the votes 
cast for each officer, and for each member of the Standing Committee. 

2. — The polls shall be opened immediately after the appointment of the 
tellers, and shall remain open for one hour and no longer. 



10 BY-LAWS AND RULES OF ORDER. 

3. — No member in arrears to the Association for dues for more than one 
year, shall be allowed to vote'. 

4. — The Treasurer shall provide the tellers with a list of life members, and 
of annual members not in arrears to the Association for more than one 
year. 

,j. — Each member in voting shall hand to the tellers two ballots, on one 
of which shall be inscribed the names of persons, whom he desires to be 
elected as President, Vice-President, Secretary, and Treasurer, and on the 
other, the names of those he desires to be elected as the members of the 
Standing Committee, whose places are to be fdled. 

6. — A majority of all the votes duly cast for such office shall be necessary 
to the election of President, Vice-President, Secretary, and Treasurer. 

7. — The persons receiving the largest number of votes as members ' 

of the Standing Committee shall be declared duly elected members of such 
Committi!'. 

8. — Votes cast for persons not regular members of the Association, or for 
members in arrears to the Association for dues for more than one year shall 
not be counted. 

9. — The Tellers shall report under miscellaneous business. 
10. — If it shall appear from the report of the Tellers that any one or more 
of the offices has not been duly filled, or that the full list of the members of 
the Standing Committee has not been duly elected, the polls shall immediately 
after such report be re-opened for the purpose of completing the election. In 
the supplementary ballot (should one be necessary) the votes for the office of 
President, Vice-President, Secretary, or Treasurer, shall be confined to the two 
candidates for such office who received the highest number of votes for the 
office in the first ballot. The polls shall not be open longer than twenty 
minutes. 

IV.— Any member wishing to submit a motion, or to make any remarks, 
shall rise and address the Chair. If more than one claims the floor, the Chair- 
man shall award it to the one who in his opinion rose first. 

V. — Any motion shall, if required, be reduced to writing, before being 
received ; and no motion shall be considered until it be seconded. It shall 
not be necessary to enter upon the minutes that it was seconded : the record 
of its having been put shall be evidence of such seconding. Motions, how- 
ever, to lay on the table, to postpone either indefinitely or to a day certain, to 
commit, or to adjourn, need not be in writing. 

VI. — When a question is before the Association, no motion shall be re- 
ceived except a motion to adjourn for a recess, to lay on the table, to postpone 
indefinitely, to postpone to a certain time, to commit or to amend ; which 
motions shall have precedence in the order named. 

VII. — All amendments shall be considered in the order in which they are 
received. When a proposed amendment is under consideration, a motion to 
amend the same may be made, and the latter shall be passed upon before the 
former : no further amendment to such second amendment shall be in order. 
But when an amendment to an amendment is under consideration, a sub- 
stitute for the original motion and said amendment may be received. No 
proposition on a subject different from that under consideration shall be 
received under color of a substitute. 



BY-LAWS AND RULES OF ORDER. 11 

VIII. — A motion to adjourn for a recess, to lay on the table, or for indefinite 
postponement shall be decided -without debate. 

IX. — A motion to adjourn shall always be in order when no member is 
speaking, and shall be decided without debate. 

X. — The mover may withdraw a motion or resolution at any time before 
a vote shall have been taken upon it, or before any amendment to it has been 
adopted ; in such case it shall not be entered upon the minutes. 

XI. — If a question under debate contains several distinct propositions, the 
same shall be divided at the request of any member, and a vote taken separ- 
ately. 

XII. — No member may speak more than twice on the same question with- 
out leave of the Association, nor more than once until every member wishing 
to speak shall have had opportunity of so doing. 

XIII. — Every member present shall vote whenever a question is put, unless 
excused by the Association. 

XIV. — A question being decided shall not be reconsidered, unless the mo- 
tion to reconsider be made at or before the stated meeting next after such 
decision; nor unless the motion for that purpose be made by one of the ma- 
jority on the first decision. No question shall be re-considered more than once. 
XV. — All Special Committees shall be appointed by the Chairman of the 
meeting unless otherwise ordered. 

XVI. — The reports of all Committees shall be in writing and shall be re- 
ceived of course, without motion for acceptance. They need not be entered 
upon the minutes unless so ordered. If recommending or requiring any ac- 
tion or expression of opinion by the Association, they shall be accompanied by 
a resolution or resolutions. 

XVII. — When a member is called to order by the Chairman, or by another 
member, he shall immediately sit down, unless permitted by the Chairman to 
explain. All questions of order shall be determined by the Chairman of the 
meeting, but any member may appeal from the decision of the Chair ; and on 
such appeal, no member shall speak more than once, without leave of the As- 
sociation. 

XVIII. — The prescribed order of business shall not be departed from, ex- 
cept by a vote of two-thirds of those present in favor of it, nor shall any rule 
of order be suspended except by like consent; nor shall any rule be changed 
or rescinded unless notice of a motion to that effect be given at a previous 
meeting, which notice shall be entered upon the minutes. 

XIX.— Absence from two consecutive meetings of the Standing Commit- 
tee on the part of any member thereof regularly notified to attend the same 
shall, when brought to the notice of the Committee, be considered as a resig- 
nation on the part of such member from the Committee, unless the Committee 
shall excuse such absence ; and the Committee shall proceed to fill his place. 

XX.— The By-laws of this Association shall be the By-laws of the Stand- 
ing Committee so far as applicable. 

XXI. — No money or property of this Association shall be in any way 
disposed of by the Standing Committee without the sanction of at least seven 
members of the committee. 

Five members of said Committee when convened on notice to all, shall be 
sufficient to constitute a quorum of that Committee for all other purposes. 



For 1875-6. 



Pfe^ident. 
Henry Drisler, Glass of 1839. 

Vide-Pi'e^ideiit. 
Frederic De Peyster, Class of 1816. 

pedf etkfy. 
Julien T. Davies, Class of 1866. 

Yfea^tu'ei*. 
Seth Low, Class of 1870. 

0tki)clii)g doinnrittee. 
William Mitchell, Class of 1820. 

William L. Boyd, Class of 1832. 

James W. Beekman, Class of 1831. 

George P. Quackenbos, Class of 1843. 
Charles A. Silliman, Class of 1850. 

J. Howard Van Amringe, Class of 1S60. 
Edward Mitchell, Class of 1S61. 

William H. Butterworth, Class of 1864. 

Joseph Bayley Lawrence, Class of 1864. 
Henry R. Beekman, Class of 1865. 
James McNamee, Class of 1867. 
John M. Nash, Class of 1868. 



L/IS^ Off JVls}MS$<f(S. 

Class. 

1818 — Henry James Anderson (Life) 

1823 — Horatio Allen 

1824 — Benjamin Aycrigg (Life) 
1832 — Henry T. Anthony 

1849 — Cornelius Rea Agnew " 

1863 — James Herman Aldrich 

1864 — John Magnus Adams 
1868 — Isaac Adler 

1868 — John William Schmidt Arnold 

1873 — Jose Ayrnar 

1820 — William Betts 

1832 — William L. Boyd 

1834 — James William Beekman (Life) 

1838 — Mancer M. Backus 

1839 — John Ebenezer Burrill, Jr. (Life) 
1839 — Edward R. Bell (Associate) 
1843 — Samuel P. Bell 

1846 — Beverley Robinson Betts 

1846 — Elias G. Brown (Life) 

1856 — Charles A. Bacon " 

1859 — John Crosby Brown " 

1859 — Edward F. Browning 

1863 — Fanning Cobham Tucker Beck " 

1863 — William Cornell Binns 

. 1863 — Thomas Tileston Bryce 

1864 — Gerard Beekman 

1864 — John Neilson Beekman (Life) 

1864 — Walston Hill Brown 

1864 — Thomas Baird Browning " 

1864 — Charles Stedman Bull 

1864 — John Frederick Butterworth " 

1864 — William Henry Butterworth " 

1865 — Henry Rutgers Beekman " 

1865 — Douglas William Burnham " 

1866 — Francis G. Brown (Associate) 

1866 — James Manning Bruce (Life) 

1867 — Samuel Appleton Blatchford " 

1867 — Charles Henry Burtis " 

1868 — James Michael Brady " 

1869 — Willard Bartlett " 
1869 — Evelyn Bartow " 
1809 — Robert Lenox Belknap 

1869 — Jacob Bininsrer 



14 LIST OF MEMBERS. 

Class. 

1871 — Robert Barbour (Life) 

1871 — Frederic Bronson " 

1874 — Charles R. Buckley 

1874 — George F. Butterworth 

1821 — Wm. D. Craft 

1827 — John P. Crosby (Life) 

1827 — William Henry Crosby 

1845 — Edward Cooper " 

1847 — Henry P. Campbell 
1850 — Malcolm Campbell 
1850 — Frederic R. Coudert 
1850 — Archibald F. Cushman 

1852 — Henry W. Clark 

1853 — William Irving Clark (Life) 

1854 — Cullen L. Carter 

1862 — Nathaniel Ellsworth Cornwall, Jr. 

1863 — Charles Frederick Clarke 

1863 — Freeman Clarkson " 
1865 — Thomas Cooper Campbell " 
1865 — Archibald M. Campbell 

1865 — John Henry Caswell " 

1868 — Benjamin Howell Campbell " 

1869 — William Bayard Cutting 

1870 — John Cropper 

1871 — Clarence Rapelje Conger 

1871 — Robert Fulton Cutting 
1874 — Timothy M. Cheesman 
1874 — Robert C. Cornell 

1818 — Frederic De Peyster ' (Life) 

1835 - Evert A. Duyckinck 

1839 — Henry Drisler " 

1841 — Cornelius Roosevelt Duffle " 

1848 — Morgan Dix 

1853 — Joseph S. Dodge, Jr. 

1855 — Charles Da Costa (Life) 
1855 — Lewis L. Delarield " 

1864 — Matthew Brinkerhoff Du Bois 

1866 — Julien Tappan Davies 

1866 — Augustus Floyd Delafield 

1867 — George Gosman De Witt, Jr. (Life) 
1869 — Henry Drisler, Jr. 

1872 — Robert C. Dorsett (Life) 

1873 — Emilio I. Del Pino 

1874 — Frank Drisler 

1841 — James Emott (Life) 

1863 — Clifford Faitoute Eagle " 

1864 — Duane Shuler Everson " 
1827 — Hamilton Fish 

1839 — James W. Fowler 



LIST OF MEMBERS. 

Class. 

1853 — William George Farrington 

1859 — Courtlandt De Peyster Field 
,1862 — Charles Dudley Fuller 

1867 — Nicholas Fish 

1868 — Frederic De Peyster Foster 

1869 — Hamilton Fish, Jr. 
1869 — William Dudley Foulke 
1871 — Stuyvesant Fisli 

1829 — Frederic E. Gibert 

1841 — Oliver Wolcott Gibbs 
1858 — Jacob A. Geissenhainer 

1860 — Robert Goelet, Jr. 

1861 — Langdon Greenwood 
1865 — Charles King Grade 

1868 — Elmslie Morven Gillett 
1823 — Mancius Smedes Hutton 
1826 — John W. Hamersley 

1842 — Abram Stevens Hewitt 
1846 — Fletcher Harper, Jr. 
1848 — Joseph Wesley Harper 

1852 — John W. Harper 

1853 — Albert Ward Hale 
1856 — Francis Hendricks 

1860 — Edmund <ibdy Hurry 

1861 — Charles Coolidge Haight 

1861 — William Richards Hillyer 

1862 — Wm. Augustus Ogden Hegeman 

1862 — Burrall Hoffman 

1863 — Randall Cook Hall 
1863 — Richard Mentor Henry 
1863 — Stephen Ferris Holmes 

1865 — James Hooker Hamersley 

1866 — Edward C. Houghton 

1869 — Edward John Hallock 

1869 — William Berrian Hooper 

1870 — Henry W. Holden 

1871 — Jacob Herrick Henry 

1871 — Joseph Hooper 

1872 — Wm. H. Haldane 
1872 — Edward Fermor Hall 
1872 — Robert Ray Hamilton 
1872 — Schuyler Hamilton, Jr. 
1874 — Frederic W. Hinrichs 

1867 — William Halsey Ingersoll 
1869 — William Iselin 

1827 — Joshua Jones 
1831 — Bradish Johnson 
1833 — John J. Jenkins 
1836 — John Jay 



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16 LIST OF MEMBERS. 

Class. 

1859 — Charles A. Jackson, Jr. (Life) 

1860 — Edward R. Jones 

1865 — Frederick Rhinelander Jones " 

1871 — George Bareut Johnson 
1874 — Wm. W. Johnson 

1838 — John Mason Knox (Life) 

1838 — Benjamin T. Kissam 

1840 — Robert Lenox Kennedy 

1846 — Edwin M. Kellogg 

1853 — John A. Kernochan 

1862 — Charles Sigourney Knox 

1865 — George Goelet Kip 

1867 — John Alsop KiDg 

1872 — Charles Henry Knox (Life) 
1829 — Richard Lawrence * (Associate) 
1837 — William Henry Leggett (Life) 
1840 — Levi Arnold Lockwood " 

1846 — Jeremiah Loder 

1848 — John Lockwood 

1849 — Joseph Laroque ( Lite) 

1849 — David Porter Lord 

1850 — Adolph Le Moyne, Jr. " 

1859 — William Lnmmis 

1862 — George Anderson Lawrence " 

1862 — Wm. G. Lathrop, Jr. 

1863 — Lewis Henry Lighthipe (Life) 
, 1863 — Le Grand Lockwood, Jr. " 

1864 — Joseph Bayley Lawrence 

1865 — William Gilman Low 
1867 — Daniel Lord 

1870 — Seth Low 

1871 — Henry Day Loder 
1820 — William Mitchell 
1822 — Adrian H. Muller 
1825 — John McKeon 

1834 — Richard E. Mount, Jr. (Life) 

1837 — John MacMullen 

1840 — John Mitchell Mason 

1842 — Livingston Kip Miller 

1847 — John J. McLaren 

1851 — John G. McNary 

1852 — James Morris 

1857 — Mytton Maury (Life) 

1858 — Charles H. Marshall 

1860 — Thomas H. Messenger " 

1860 — George Mason Miller 

1861 — James McNamee 

1861 — Edward Mitchell (Life) 

1862 — Cornelius Berriau Mitchell " 



LIST OP MEMBERS. 17 



Class. 






1863 


— Dan Marvin, Jr. 


(Life) 


1868 
1864 


— Stuyvesant Fish Morris 

— William Franklin Molt 


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1865 


— Henry Richard McElligott 


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1865 


— William Neilson McVickar 


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1865 


— Randolph Brant Marline 


a 


1865 


— James Fontaine Maury 


cc 


1866 


— Augustus Chapman Merriam 


a 


1868 


— William Mitchell, Jr. 


a 


1870 


— Robert Stratton Morison 


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— Daniel S. Miller 


(Associate) 


1871 


— James Brander Matthews 


'* 


1871 


— James Otis Morse 


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1871 


— Chester Clark Monroe 


" 


1872 


— John H. Maghee 


<( 


1872 


— Valentine Mott 


" 


1874 


— Alfred Meyer 




1860 


— Robert Dillon Nesmith 


(Life) 


1861 


— Gratz Nathan 


(Life) 


1863 


— Hiram Hunt Nazro 


" 


1S63 


— Thomas Bellamy Newby 


ii 


1866 


— Edward Holland Nicoll 


" 


1868 


— John McLean Nash 




1833 


— Gouverneur M. Ogden 




1848 


— Peter Wilson Ostrander 


(Life) 


1862 


— Charles Walton Ogden 


(i 


1867 


— Cadwalader Evans Ogden 




1869 


— David B. Ogden 


(Life) 


1870 


— Isidor Pierce Oberndorfer 




1872 


— Richard Ogden 




1822 


— Alfred C. Post 




1840 


— George W. Pell 




1846 


— Edward M. Peck 


(Life) 


1860 


— Eugene Hall Pomeroy 


" 


1864 


— Henry Hills Parker 


it 


1865 


— James Lyman Price 


ti 


1865 


— Frederick Prime, Jr. 


n 


1866 


— Willard Parker, Jr. 


ii 


1867 


— Henry Evelyn Pierrepont, Jr. 


" 


1868 


— Duane Livingston Peabody 


" 


1869 


— Charles Augustus Peabody 


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1869 


— William Macneven Purdy 


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1870 


— George Livingston Peabody 


ii 


1843 


— George Payn Quackenbos 


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1868 


— John Duncan Quackenbos 


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1832 


— William Channing Russell 


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1833 


— Henry B. Renwick 


11 


1835 


— John H. Riker 


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1836 


— James Renwick 


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18 LIST OP MEMBERS. 

Class. 

1839 — Edward Sabine lienwick (Life) 

1847 — James Francis Ruggles 

1848 — Columbus B. Rogers 
1859 — Wm. L. Raymond 

1865 — Arthur Bernard Ross (Life) 

1870 — David Alvah Rowe 

1871 — Benjamin F. Romaine, Jr. 

1871 — John Watts Russell (Life) 

1872 — John Krom Rees 

1874 — Sylvanus A. Reed (Life) 

1874 — Edward S. Rapallo 

1826 — Thomas Swords' 

1829 — Charles R. Swords (Life) 

1834 — Robert S. Swords 

1840 — William Colford Schermerhorn (Life) 
184- — Adam T. Sackett (Associate) 
1848 — Otis D wight Swan 

1850 — Charles Augustus Silliman " 

1856 — Alexander M. Stanton 

1859 — Oscar E. Schmidt 

1860 — James S. Satterthwaite (Life) 
1863 — Philip Justice Sands 

1863 — Henry Yates Satterlee (Life) 

1863 — Rutherfurd Stuyvesant " 

1864 — Frederick William Stephens " 

1865 — Lenox Smith " 

1866 — George Putnam Smith 

1867 — Julius Sachs 

1869 — Francis N. Shepard 

1869 — John Adams Smedberg 

1869 — David Stewart, Jr. (Life) 

1869 — Henry Cady Sturges 

1871 — Henry Mason Smyth 

1871 — Robert Swan 

1871 — Oscar Salomon Strauss 

1872 — Charles L. Short 

1873 — Alexander B. Simonds 
1873 — Silas M. Stillwell, Jr. 
1873 — Louis St. Amant 

1873 — Gilbert M. Speir, Jr. (Life) 

1873 — Lefferts Strebeigh «c 

1874 — Benjamiu A. Sands 
1874 — Frank Storrs 

1831 — Francis Tomes, Jr. (Life) 

1852 — Henry A. Tailer 

1855 — Herbert B. Turner 

1856 — David G. Thompson 
1856 — John W. Timpson 

1861 — George Lansing Taylor 



LIST OF MEMBERS. 19 

Class. 

1861 — Joseph M. Turner (Life) 

1866 -r- Augustus Talbot " 

1866 — Richmond Talbot 

1872 — Edmund Grindle Rawson Trimble 
1874 — Thomas D. Thompson 

1829 — John D. Van Buren 

1858 — G. H. Van Wagenen 

1860 — John Howard Van Amringe (Life) 
1865 — Abraham Van San tvoord " 
1865 — Isaac Van Winkle 

1867 — Aaron Ernest Vanderpoel " 
1871 — Joseph Fenelon Vermilye 

1873 — Daniel B. Vermilye 
1819 — Thomas L. Wells 

1836 — George Gilfert Waters (Life) 

1854 — Stewart L. Woodford 

1859 — William D. Walker 

1861 — Luis Puertas Walton (Life) 
1861 — Samuel Baldwin Ward 

1861 — Edward Walter West 

1861 — Albert Beach Whitney " 

1863 '— Sylvester L. H. Ward " 

1864 — IsidorWalz 

1864 — John Visscher Wheeler " 

1865 — William Bogart Walker 
1865 — James Lee Wells 

1867 — Rudolph August Witthaus, Jr. (Life) 

1867 — James Henry Work " 

1868 — Lucius Kellogg Wilmerding 

1869 — Edward Francis Weeks , (Life) 

1869 — Thenford Woodhull 

1870 — Dennistoun Wood (Life) 

1871 — Robert Waller, Jr. 

1872 — Henry Edgar Woodward 

1873 — Bache McEvers Whitlock 

1862 — Leroy Milton Yale 



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